Stories of Bigfoot (or Sasquatch) seem to have been around for hundreds of years. Legends of a giant hairy beast, part man, part ape, stretch from North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and more.
What is it about this creature that has so many convinced that Bigfoot is real?
I’ve been watching “Finding Bigfoot” on a regular basis that airs on Sunday’s on Animal Planet.
The show is quite fun to watch. I get a kick out of it anyway. You have 4 investigators going all over the country researching sightings and videos that catch their eye.
Investigators on the series are Matt Moneymaker who founded the BFRO, James “Bobo” Fay, Cliff Barackman, and Ranae Holland who is the skeptic.
They are determined to prove that Bigfoot is real, and is living among us in areas with lots of forests, woods, mountains, which are perfect habitats for the creature to live unseen by man.
Each episode features the team getting locals to tell their stories about their sightings. They pick three of the best stories and actually go to the sight of the “sightings” and recreate the scene. That way they can judge how tall, how big, how fast or whatever the Bigfoot was in the supposed sighting.
Then the team narrows down the most “logical spot” after reviewing all the locations of the sightings and then investigate that area at night. They make Squatch calls, have video, audio recording, and set up traps or fires to get the creature to “take a look” at them. It’s all quite “scientific” I suppose – maybe.
I have several problems concerning Bigfoot. And all you have to do is use some logic and you’ll find that Bigfoot is not real. Nothing but a good story to tell around a campfire.
First, for the TV show, to me it’s quite stupid to actually think that Bigfoot doesn’t have a sense of smell. Bigfoot, if real as they think, would probably have a sense of smell like a shark. He could smell humans, and other prey, a mile away. And four humans tromping around the woods making “calls” isn’t going to fool Bigfoot – he can smell them coming – not to mention hear them.
And the Squatch “calls” are hilarious. Really? They don’t think that Bigfoot can tell a “call” from a human versus an animal? Even the coyotes can tell when it’s a human making the calls. They make so much noise out there that Bigfoot is probably running AWAY from them as fast as he can. Wild animals usually get spooked by a lot of noise and racket and so it would be easy to expect the same from Bigfoot, considering how shy he is.
And every little sound they hear in the woods, at night, they think is Bigfoot. No – it’s not. There are dozens and dozens of animals that live in the forest. All of them make noise and sounds. Just because you don’t know which animal it was that makes the “sound” you heard which you couldn’t identify – doesn’t make it Bigfoot by default. These people don’t spend their life living in the forest. They have no idea how many animals roam the forest at night. Identifying the sounds is not easy. And not being familiar enough with all the types of animals and sounds that are heard at night in the forest, they can’t and won’t ever prove that some squawk they heard was a Bigfoot.
My next problem is the fact that Bigfoot is supposedly a nocturnal creature. Why? If Bigfoot is a hybrid between ape and human – both of which are not nocturnal – then what makes Bigfoot nocturnal? There are very few primates that are nocturnal, and most are small. Examples are the Lemur, Aye-Aye, and Tarsiers. As far as great apes go, could not find if any of them are nocturnal. It just seems odd that most primates are diurnal and so are humans – so it doesn’t make sense that Bigfoot would be nocturnal.
Another problem is the fact that Bigfoot has been seen in just about every continent and every state in the United States. Hundreds of people for decades and decades have spent their life trying to capture this creature. There are hundreds of people hunting this creature to prove its real – and only a real body will prove it.
And after all this – no one has captured one. No one has found a bone, a skull, a femur, a tooth or any bone that can be attributed to a Bigfoot. No one has found a burial site. A Bigfoot nest. No one has found hair – any hair at all. This thing is supposed to be really hairy right? And all the sightings, you would think that someone could find ONE HAIR to test. No bones, no blood, no hair, no nests all equal not real.
With so many sightings of Bigfoot, basically all over the world, there would have to be a bunch of Bigfoots living among us. Like hundreds, in order to match the number of sightings and locations and the span of time. There would have to be communities of Bigfoots, with mothers and baby bigfoots to keep the species going. I just can’t believe that.
And the only thing that we have as far as any real physical evidence is footprints. Yep, that’s it. A lot of footprints, of all sizes. Some with arches, some without arches, some resemble humans, some look more primate, some even are hybrid between primate and human, some with four toes, some with more, it goes on and on. Foot prints are easily faked. And footprints can be misidentified. And more than one animal footprint in the same spot can modify a footprint to look like something else. And human imagination is stubborn.
Until someone actually brings a body (dead or alive) of a creature that is unknown to us – then I might believe. But I’m not holding my breath.
What will be interesting is next week’s “Ancient Aliens” episode about Bigfoot sightings and the link between Bigfoot and UFOs. Yeah, I’ve heard that for a while now. That many Bigfoot sightings are accompanied by UFO sightings at the same time. Even theories about how Bigfoot might be an alien of some kind and that’s the reason we don’t find any evidence of Bigfoots. Possible? Maybe. But why would an alien need to stop off in the woods on Earth for such a short time and in so many places? To take a leak? I’ll have to watch the show and judge for myself.
And I’ll continue to watch “Finding Bigfoot” for my weekly laugh. So is Bigfoot real?
For more information on the show: http://animal.discovery.com/tv/finding-bigfoot/
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Why would so many people that have reported seeing the same creature in detail be lying about so? What would so many have to gain? People are seeing what we call “Bigfoot” and he and she is out there.
Also EVERY area claiming bigfoot sightings or encounters, has their own legends of water monsters. Take the famed Loch Ness. A bigfoot creature of Scotland is known as te Greyman!
Check it out. Indian Legend inthe Pacific Northwest, is full of water monster reports as well. The phenomenon are both the same. My own view is that they are paranormal in nature.
Also to throw this into the subject of bigfoot. People who have searched the Pacific Northwest for the creature tell of hearing hums and machinary like noises miles from any establishements. So all the conjectures about people world wide hearing noises, like hums etc. were being heard centuries prior to now! These noises are not new!
Dennis. True that Bigfoot sightings are many times in tandem with UFO sightings. And all kinds of weird nosies and even hums. But I think that the “hums” that people are hearing today and in the past are not rrealted to Bigfoot. I think the hums are more technologically based. But it is true that just about every country has its tales and legends of monsters, lake monsters, invisbile creatures, and so forth. Maybe Bigfoot is one of these creatures. He is said to be able to disappear instantly in a flash. Maybe many monsters are real – but we just don’t understand where they come from or if they are aliens here for a purpose or even what they are. I hope some are captured and found real some time soon -so we know if Bigfoot is real or not or any other monster legends. I tend to believe that Bigfoot isn’t real – but with so many legends of all kinds of monsters that appear worldwide – could everyone really be imagining or misidentifying or is there more to it? That’s why we investigate. That’s our curiosity at work.
I have been following the Bigfoot story since 15 yrs old. Now I am 63. Several things have emerged from all of this that should also be related to the Legend! First and few people know this, EVERY PLACE THAT HAS REPORTED BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS, HAS ALSO LEGENDS OF WATER MONSTERS, SOMEWHERE IN ITS PAST, NOT TO MENTION UFO ACTIVITIES AND MEN IN BLACK! Take Loch Ness, they have their own Bigfoot creature, known as THE GREY MAN, which livesin mountains surrounding the Lochs of that far away land! Also Loch Ness has its UFO reports not to mention the infamous Men In Black reports. It has become apparent to me that all ofthis somehow has a paranormal connection. Bigfoot leaves prints, in far off mountain terrain. UFOs leave landing pad prints, in various areas. Both phenomena exhibit sulfer odors in association with sightings. Bigfoot hair, angels hair, both of which seem to vanish upon examination. Pictures are blurred and undiscernable at best. Both seem to be able to vanish into thin air, as even several bigfoot reports of the creature vanishing in a flash of light, have been stated. As in other paranormal cases, ghost etc, with UFOs and Bigfoot, animals go crazy and exhibit great fear! Indian legend is stock full of Bigfoot encounters, with even early settlers encountering the beast. Supposedly Daniel Boone shot one. I could go on and on, but do not have the room here. Bigfoot has a history, and if the creature is tied in to the paranormal, we will never catch it.
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