OT:Bigfoot
Hey everyone. I have had Bigfoot discussions with a lot of people so I thought on a boring day with not much going on, why not see what the Mgoblog community thinks about the topic.
I am a believer, but not sure if Bigfoot is extinct, supernatural or has somehow just managed to stay hidden (government cover up potentially). I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I always like to keep an open mind on ALL topics.
I have a hard time believing that American Indians and many other indigenous peoples have made up these stories for so many years. Yes, I think a lot of people who come up with sightings are full of it or crazy, but that doesn’t settle the debate in my opinion.
Some of the areas I have spent time in where I could definitely see this thing hiding out are East Texas (nothing for miles and miles and plenty of Forrest. Crawford County Michigan, East Tennessee and areas in Central California near Sequoia National Park.
Do you think Bigfoot could be real? Still today? Supernatural? ( I always keep an open mind to this).
What do you think of my observations?
What areas have you been to in this country or world for that matter where something like this could elude humans?
Last note, The Patterson Gimlin film still looks real to me. The suits they make nowadays are not even close to how real that thing looked.
Take it easy, everyone.
This isn't what I thought it was it is.
I took Anthrarc 285 at UM (awesome class btw) and we had a unit on Bigfoot. Long story short, no, there is not a population of Bigfeet roaming around.
You believe everything you learned while at UofM? I hope not.
As an inquiring mind, I'll ask: would you care to give a slightly less short, short story? I'd be curious to know academia's take on Harry and the Hendersons, preferably with slightly less brevity. Like maybe a paragraph.
It basically comes down to the fact that in order to support a population (that wouldn't peter out within generations due to inbreeding, disease, etc) there would have to be a bunch of Bigfeet roaming out there. Combine that with the lack of reputable evidence (no hair, bones, dead bodies, scat, etc) and it's just not possible, at least not in the context of terrestrial life as we know it. It's been like 6 years since I took the class, so I may be forgetting some pieces.
I'd highly recommend the class, especially if Lisa Young is still teaching it. She's the reason I accidently got a minor in archaeology.
If you were able to interview percipient witnesses, and or otherwise preserve testimony from those encounters that are the basis of the myth, I think you are going to find out that it was just some dude mother-in-law all along. Some metaphorical shit.
Hey man, Jack Link's Beef Jerky proved to all of us that Sasquatch is real. I'm sure Bigfoot must be, too.
Goddammit, now this is exactly why we need a College Football Pre-Season schedule!
Let's make it happen, Kevin Warren
Michigan's 2020 Pre-Season Football Schedule:
- Michigan @ Delaware
- Pittsburg State @ Michigan
- Michigan @ Mission Viejo High School Diablos
- NFC All-Stars @ Michigan
- 2017 BIG 10 All-Americans @ Michigan
- Virginia Military Institute @ Michigan
Bigfoot isn’t Murderwolf if that’s what your thinking.
0% chance any Bigfoot-like creature exists in North America. Absolutely no credible evidence some creature we haven't found yet is living in the woods somewhere
Love this topic since there is no conspiracy I do no believe in.
However, Big Foot, no.
Pure flapdoodle.
Don’t believe in the Bigfoot. However, the moon landing was obviously filmed on a sound stage at San Bernardino Air Force Base.
Flying drones were supposed to help. I hate these people so much for ruining the emotional investments of others.
Cold-blooded.
Coincidentally the FBI just released docs related to Bigfoot pursuant to an FOIA request.
"I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I always like to keep an open mind on ALL topics."
Is what every conspiracy theorist says.
I am a believer, but not sure if Bigfoot is extinct, supernatural or has somehow just managed to stay hidden (government cover up potentially). I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I always like to keep an open mind on ALL topics.
Hm...
I cant think of Bigfoot without remembering the movie Strange Wilderness and their quest to find the Bigfoot. God that movie is stupid. Stupid good. Sorta.
When my kids were much younger, My wife and I would take them bigfoot hunting in the summer months.
After dark we would all pile in the jeep and drive until we were dirt roads deep in the woods. We would almost always see eye-shine from various animals, or dark forms in the woods.
Every so often when we thought we saw something I would stop the car, roll down the windows, and turn the engine off. I told them it was to see if we could hear anything in the pitch black darkness.
This was the point at which the kids would get freaked out - yelling at me to roll up the windows and get out of there.
If I had really thought there was a Bigfoot I would not have done this at all.
The biggest problem with bigfoot sightings and reports is humans. They are completely unreliable and flawed witnesses.
I’m in the “Doesn’t Exist” camp. It’s 2019. We can zoom in on other planets. Transplant organs. Make microchips the size of a pinhead. Have an unmanned drone drop a bomb on your ass because you gave off a little heat. And we can’t find any tangible trace of a Bigfoot? No bones, carcass, or a live one? It’s a nice legend, though
By the way, this scared the crap outta me as a kid...
...but of course it’s campy now.
While I don't think it's highly probable, I do leave the door open for the possibility of a bigfoot type creature.
Just because we haven't found something yet isn't proof it doesn't exist.
Heck, even when science DOES find evidence of creatures from the past and then declares them to be extinct because no one can find any today, they're still wrong sometimes: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-lazarus-creatures-six-species-we-thought-were-extinct-aren-t/
I tend to be in the belief camp that with so many indigenous peoples around the world all sharing similar accounts of various "legendary" creatures, the stories HAVE to be rooted in reality at some point. Otherwise, what motivation do people all over the world have for perpetuating a known joke or false story for thousands of years and even writing it down in their records as "true" history? Mass civilizations don't all just up and decide to con history like that. So there's something to these stories...we just haven't figured it all out yet.
I think Bigfoot is definitely a possibility in some place in the world, but I also think it's unlikely. There are so few sightings, there has never been a live or dead specimen recovered, and if it does exist, I'm not sure how a stable population is maintained since there is seemingly so few of them
There is no possible way that Bigfoot exists. None. This planet has almost 8 BILLION people living on it, and not a single one has ever - EVER - captured any evidence of one. Not even a bone fragment. Could a population survive? Sure it could. Could it survive without ever having been found despite multiple world wars, global mapping imagery, global heat source tracing, extensive global surveying, etc? Nope. Not in numbers large enough to actually sustain a population.
Give me science over your myths. But if you can prove your myth through science, I'll allow it.
Yep, governments and colleges have used FLIR to do a wildlife census of vast wilderness or look for forest fires...no bigfoot.
Also no fossil record. I had a coworker once dig up Pterodactyl bones in his yard. Where are the Bigfoot bones?
I believe Gigantopithecus was real at some point.
I don't think any are still alive, though.
Climbing Mount St. Helens this weekend. I will tell him you said "Hi".
John Lithgow has your answer.
“supernatural or has somehow just managed to stay hidden (government cover up potentially). I am not a conspiracy theorist”
I love it! Also he goes by Harry and lives with a family in the northwest. Forgot their name.
Like most here...where are the bones? Because of that I am not a believer of BF...but I am a believer of aliens
You have alien bones?
Team bigfoot!
If there were 7 foot beasts all over the world we would have found plenty of them by now.
What if they don't play basketball?
FBI was into Bigfoot: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/politics/bigfoot-fbi-1970s-files/index.html
Harry and the Hendersons was a good movie
No.
No it was not.
Yes it was