Bigfoot Poll

[LGC42]

The man who wore the suit in the Patterson film is still alive. Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson shot the film in northern California. Bob Gimlin lives across the road from me.
He is close to 90 years old now.
Bob Heironomous lives couple of houses down the road from me. He is 83 now. He claims to be the man in the ape suit.

 

[outlaw_dogboy]

I want to believe. Just like I want to believe the Thylacine still lives. But, I don't believe there is anything like a Sasquatch, not in the US. With all the trails cameras, smart phones, drones, etc... Nope. It is much more believable that things like Nessie, Champie, and whatever the one is in some lake in AK exist. Deep water is an extremely hostile and impenetrable environment. Woods aren't.

I hope to be proven wrong before I die, because I think it would be really cool.

 

[Hondo44]

If you saw a Bigfoot, snapped a photo, shot one or heard one, would you tell anyone outside your family???

I rest my case.

 

[Jeepnik]

If you saw a Bigfoot, snapped a photo, shot one or heard one, would you tell anyone outside your family???

I rest my case.

I'd take a swab and send it off to a DNA lab. Then put it in a walk in freezer and wait for the lab results. When they cam back, I'd call a press conference and wheel it out. That would settle things once and for all.

 

[BearBiologist]

Or just found a dead one.

Any species needs more than a handful of members to perpetuate itself. I don't know what zoologists would say was the minimum but it has to be around 20 or so. Even with a number that small, and they would all have to live pretty closely to one another to breed, sooner or later evidence of a dead one would appear as well as better proof of a live one.

I think the people pushing this fairy tale do so to make a few bucks in the remote areas of the country where Bigfoot supposedly lives. Reminds me of back in the 1970's when bear hunting was legal in NY state, and bear sightings in various areas were widely publicized. Hunters from NYC would flock to the area, stay in the motels, eat in the restaurants, buy ammo in the gun shops, etc. but it seemed no bears were shot. I suspected local business.

The Effective Population (The number required to keep a population viable) is believed to be about 500. However, species like the Coelacanth (a large prehistoric fish) that was declared extinct but rediscovered in a trawl in 1938 and a second species was described in 1999. It can grow to about 6.5 feet and was later found to be an uncommon fish but frequent fish displayed in several native fish markets. The Okapi or Forest Giraffe (ht.= 4'+ and wt. = 770 lbs.) wasn't described until 1901 or 9002.

And a "new" 30 ft snake:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/americas/worlds-biggest-snake-amazon-intl-scli-scn/index.html

Green Anaconda Song - Yahoo Video Search Results

The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web.

video.search.yahoo.com

Granted, most new species are based on updated and improved genetics but still......":

20 Amazing Animals Discovered in the Last 20 Years

In the two decades since Mental Floss first hit newsstands, some pretty incredible animals have entered the world of mainstream science.

www.mentalfloss.com

 

[BearBiologist]

I once worked with a gravel mine in California on reviewing their operation. There was local resistance to the gravel trucks going up and down their quiet country road. They had about 25 acres of serpentine soil (asbestos laden and of no use) but possibly of value in relocating and establishing a population of a small flower that had been declared extinct for 58 years until a small (5 plants) had been re-discovered. Endangered plants have no protections except on Federal land! I suggested a public appeal to species preservation. They got the good publicity and the next day the botanists were lined up outside my cubicle. They told me that they "knew" (clandestinely) that there was a population of 125 additional plants on that patch of soil and they wanted to buy me a beer!

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Sometime about 10-12 years ago, the guy who planted all the fake footprints came clean and confessed. And he was hysterically amused about all the people who believed all the bigfoot stories, because he "planted" most of them.

I'm calling bs on this one. Foot prints have been found all over the country and years before people on this forum were alive. A blind man can tell the difference between real and fake.

 

[Jayhawkhuntclub]

I don't think bigfoot is a physical creature. If it were, we would have bones, bodies and trailcam pics. I have come to believe it is real though. Same for ufo's or uap's.

 

[Jayhawkhuntclub]

People in all parts of the world have been reporting and documenting stuff like this for thousands of years. Ancient rock and cave paintings, religious documents, oil paintings, carvings, etc. are some of the documentation. Demons, vampires, fairies, werewolves, UFO's, ET's, ghosts, witches and warlocks, dragons, flying feathered serpents, Yeti, gods, and on and on. It's a fascinating field to explore in terms of human cultural evolution and archeology/anthropology. Most of it results from people trying to explain what they don't understand, or can even comprehend. Maybe some of it is real.

What did Ezekiel really see? And what about all those Vimana?

When something exists for centuries and in many disconnected areas, there might be something to it.

Dragons are a real interesting one. Seems odd they are prevalent in so many unconnected places historically. And the ancient depictions are nearly identical regardless of where they come from. Hard to explain.

 

[BearBiologist]

VERY true!!!!! Primal memory????

Genetic Memory: How We Know Things We Never Learned

I met my first savant 52 years ago and have been intrigued with that remarkable condition ever since. One of the most striking and consistent things in the many savants I have seen is that that they clearly know things they never learned.

www.scientificamerican.com

Galahs are a parasitic parrot (Nest parasites). They lay their eggs in another species' nest and let the foster adults raise them.....BUT, when adults, galahs "speak" the galahs language and mate with other gulahs and lay their eggs in the same manor. To a lesser extent this behavior is found in brown cowbirds and species of cuckoos.

"Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of certain animals, brood parasites, that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy appears among birds, insects and fish. The brood parasite manipulates a host, either of the same or of another species, to raise its young as if it were its own, usually using egg mimicry, with eggs that resemble the host's."

 

[GunnyGene]

When something exists for centuries and in many disconnected areas, there might be something to it.

Dragons are a real interesting one. Seems odd they are prevalent in so many unconnected places historically. And the ancient depictions are nearly identical regardless of where they come from. Hard to explain.

The big unanswered question is the "something". And what are all those Moai on Easter Island looking at?

 

[MaxMan]

I want to believe. Just like I want to believe the Thylacine still lives. But, I don't believe there is anything like a Sasquatch, not in the US. With all the trails cameras, smart phones, drones, etc... Nope. It is much more believable that things like Nessie, Champie, and whatever the one is in some lake in AK exist. Deep water is an extremely hostile and impenetrable environment. Woods aren't.

I hope to be proven wrong before I die, because I think it would be really cool. Thylacine sounds like an antibiotic to me.

Thy

 

[hittman]

Heads up!

Right now on the Travel (Trvl) Network they're playing Alaskan Killer Bigfoot followed by Yeti Massacre!

Grab yer popcorn and settle in!

 

[BearBiologist]

When I retired, I was going to teach a couple of adult classes at the local junior college: "Crypsis and Mimicry in Plants and Animals". Crypsis is simply camouflage and mimicry exists in two forms Batesian (color and shape) and Mullerian (behavior and numbers). Was a seminar class from grad school. I will be manning a booth at the local Farmer's Market on Earth Day that will be focusing on mimicry, focused at the childhood level.

The Other course was going to be "Weird Biology". It would deal with thigs like "porphyria" (https://www.bydewey.com/drkporphyria.html), extreme hirsuteness (werewolves), etc. Did you know there are vampire finches and vampire moths? Lizards and bird species with only females?? Fish, and amphibians and even reptiles that change sexes? Fish where the males are bloodsucking parasites on the females? Frogs that have intercourse that lasts almost a year?

 

[Paladin]

I used to think that Bigfoot did not exist. I said "used to" because I now have second thoughts after a possible sighting myself.

Many years ago, I was driving eastbound through Indiana on the Indiana Toll Road in an isolated wooded rural area in mid-afternoon. I happened to glance down into a shallow valley with a clearing and clearly saw a creature that strongly resembled the existing images of Bigfoot walking across the clearing on two legs and it turned its head and glanced up at the highway. This was all clear as day to me.

I wanted to pull off to the side of the toll road and go back to check it out but figured whatever the creature was would be gone by then and I wasn't going to run into the woods looking for it.

To this day, I still have a vivid memory of that image and wonder if I really saw what I thought I saw, Bigfoot.

 

[bobsyouruncle]

There was a comic book called, Homegrown funnies, that is possibly a true story titled "Whiteman meets Sasquatch"

 

[hittman]

I grew up in northern Missouri and in the 60s and 70s there were rumors about what some called Mo-Mo ….. a Bigfoot type thingy seen near Louisiana MO and maybe other places.

Haven't heard anything about Mo-Mo four a few decades now.

I wonder of our fellow members Kevin and Mobuck remember that?!

 

[redhawker]

I voted "No."

And those pictures that do exist of Bigfoot and such (Loc Ness Monster) why are they so grainy and out of focus?

That's because the natural appearance of those things, UFOs included, is out of focus and grainy. They would be out of focus and grainy if you saw any of those in person.

 

[bobsyouruncle]

If they do exist, it could be some kind of deformity or end product of a disease in bears

 

[MaxMan]

That's because the natural appearance of those things, UFOs included, is out of focus and grainy. They would be out of focus and grainy if you saw any of those in person.