Sasquatch

[Superluminal]

A little of an off topic for an astronomy board I admit. I just found out the other day that a friend of mine since grade school, the mid 60s, is an independant bigfoot investigator, and has been for several years. As far as I can remember, he had never said anything one way or the other about the subject. I had thought that most bigfoot stuff had gone away. We had a few sightings around here when I was a kid, but most people just blew them off as hoaxs. I just wanted to see what a more scientificly literate crowd had to say.

[Kebsis]

Here's the Skepdic.com entry on Bigfoot...

http://www.skepdic.com/bigfoot.html

The search for Bigfoot has been on for decades and hardly any evidence whatsoever has been found to support his existance. Just a blown-out-of-proportion folk tale, imo.

[Rc2000]

Personally, I don't believe they're real. Same for UFOs, ghosts and some other things.
Course, if a big foot walked up and knocked on my door, I think I'd be changin my mind real fast. :o

Rc

[Humphrey]

Agreed. Folk tale to the extreeme. Heck in florida we supposedly have a swamp verion of Bigfoot. It is just people taking common object and misthinking what they actually are.

[Superluminal]

I wonder if one of the things that motivate some of the researchers, is the chance to say, "I told you so.", to all the skeptics and naysayers? A couple of years ago a family about 10 miles from where I live, reported a 20 foot snake living in a pond near their house. A man who hit the snake, said it was so big his car bounced in the air. The family was subjected to so much ridicule from people, they were almost afraid to leave their house. A dead 11 foot python was found a few days later, autopsy by game and fish revealed it died from intestinal damage from being run over. A family member wrote a long scathing letter to a local paper about narrow mindedness, I wish I had kept a copy.

A few years before that a deer hunter killed an African monkey about 2 miles from my house, and said that there were at least 3 more out there. With all the exotic pets people can get these days there is no telling what maybe wondering around out there,

[Normandy6644]

"scientists have proven that the sasquatch is real....take a look at the plastic cast of his foot now you know he's real....listen real close to the audio tape of his voice yeah you know he's real....no way it's a guy in gorilla suit no [expletive]ing way yeah you know he's real!!"

Tenacious D fans anyone? :lol:

[Pi Man]

Ok... so what two people answered that there was a bigfoot? 8-[

[Normandy6644]

Ok... so what two people answered that there was a bigfoot? 8-[

I did, for two reasons. A) accidentally hit the wrong button :oops: , B) once I realized I had voted for it, I decided to keep it (as if I could really change it) because Tenacious D said that he's real. :lol: Besides, what's the fun in a poll if you don't have at least 2 sides to the argument?

[darkhunter]

Do teenagers today with their huge feet count? :D

IIRC there was an article (night have been linked to here?) a while back where the folk who invented Bigfoot came out and admittted it--it was made up to help scare thieves away from their equipment...

[captain swoop]

Like the Loch Ness Monster there can't be just one of them, there has to be a viable breeding population.

One would have turned up by now.

[rigel]

Even the littlest things get exagerated, as with everything in life. I see that the 11 ft sanke, was described as a 20 ft snake.

I know the little animals I hear at night sound like they are the size of bears.

[Hale_Bopp]

Agreed. Folk tale to the extreeme. Heck in florida we supposedly have a swamp verion of Bigfoot. It is just people taking common object and misthinking what they actually are.

I belive you mean the Chupacabra. I virtually bust a gut laughing a couple of seasons ago when Karen on the show Will & Grace made a reference to the chupacabra.

Rob

[SeanF]

Agreed. Folk tale to the extreeme. Heck in florida we supposedly have a swamp verion of Bigfoot. It is just people taking common object and misthinking what they actually are.

I belive you mean the Chupacabra. I virtually bust a gut laughing a couple of seasons ago when Karen on the show Will & Grace made a reference to the chupacabra.

Rob

Chupacabra is Mexican, isn't it? I didn't know they got around to Florida . . . :)

[Hale_Bopp]

Chupacabra is Mexican, isn't it? I didn't know they got around to Florida . . .

I believe you are correct...when people migrate from one place to another, they frequently bring their myths/legends/traditions with them. I never heard of it until I lived in Florida.

Rob

[tazmandevil3]

I don't know if anyone has viewed this yet, but during July of 2003, apparently the BBC proved there is definitely no Loch Ness Monster.

"Using 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation technology to ensure that none of the loch was missed, the team surveyed the waters said to hide Scotland's legendary tourist attraction but found no trace of the monster."

More information can be located within this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3096839.stm

It's kind of a shame, at least for me. Ever since I was young, I was always fascinated with the mystery of the deep, and Nessie was always my favorite sea monster. Oh well. :(

One can only imagine what creatures lurk in the Challenger Deep which we have not yet identified...

[Mr. X]

Like the Loch Ness Monster there can't be just one of them, there has to be a viable breeding population.

One would have turned up by now.
The Loch Ness dealy is hooey. The guy admitted having made it up him and his friends just before he died.

[Sever]

I just have to say...Mongolian Death Worm!!(google that!)

[SeanF]

I don't know if anyone has viewed this yet, but during July of 2003, apparently the BBC proved there is definitely no Loch Ness Monster.

[-X

You cannot prove a negative . . .

:)

[Hale_Bopp]

tazmandevil3 wrote:
I don't know if anyone has viewed this yet, but during July of 2003, apparently the BBC proved there is definitely no Loch Ness Monster.




You cannot prove a negative . . .


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SeanF


Remember the old saying : Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (sorry, can't remember the source.)

Rob

[Humphrey]

Chupacabra is Mexican, isn't it? I didn't know they got around to Florida . . .

I believe you are correct...when people migrate from one place to another, they frequently bring their myths/legends/traditions with them. I never heard of it until I lived in Florida.

Rob


http://www.randi.org/jr/01-05-2000.html

[Los Pescados]

it's phooey until real -- definitive, testable, verifiable -- evidence is revealed. seems most places have some sort of hidden creature.. out here on the west coast of canada, we have two -- the ogopogo (a loch ness monster clone), and big foot. hokey pokey nonsense, and millions of tourist dollars.

[Superluminal]

Rigel made a good point about people over estimating the sizes of what they see, especially if it's something they are not familiar with, or see something where it's not supposed to be. An 11 foot python in an area where snakes rarely grow more than 6-7 feet.

The monkey the deer hunter shot was just under 3 feet tall. It stood erect and was growling at him when he shot it. He later said he could have sworn it was 5-6 feet tall. Must have been the excitement. If he had missed and it ran away, it would have gone down as another bigfoot sighting. But this time the mystery was solved.

[Kebsis]

I don't know if anyone has viewed this yet, but during July of 2003, apparently the BBC proved there is definitely no Loch Ness Monster.

[-X

You cannot prove a negative . . .

:)

Sure you can. I just looked in my glass of sprite and proved there is no monsters of any definite size in it.

[Los Pescados]

don't forget the fellow who faked the all-to-famous photo. under pressure to come back with a photo, he used a toy. once you hear this, it's quite obvious looking at the photo.. the ripples are too large, or there isn't enough detail in the peaks of the water around it, etc.. it looks exactly like what he says it was.

http://www.icidal.com/xproject/gallery/images/fpl/nessie__lg.jpg

[Kebsis]

Los Pescados, you're link sends me into the forbidden zone.

[informant]

IIRC there was an article (night have been linked to here?) a while back where the folk who invented Bigfoot came out and admittted it
Bigfoot Legend Creator Dies; Family Calls Bigfoot A Hoax (http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/1823767/detail.html)

[SeanF]

I don't know if anyone has viewed this yet, but during July of 2003, apparently the BBC proved there is definitely no Loch Ness Monster.

[-X

You cannot prove a negative . . .

:)

Sure you can. I just looked in my glass of sprite and proved there is no monsters of any definite size in it.

Nope. You've demonstrated that you can't see them, but you haven't proven they're not there.

[boppa]

Nope. You've demonstrated that you can't see them, but you haven't proven they're not there.
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SeanF


whos been watching that show with the guy who had the invisiblity gland implanted into him??

quicksilver or something like that??

it came from bigfoot and thats why we never see them-cause they are invisible!!!

`its on tv so it MUST be true'

[Kebsis]

I remember seeing a discussion about the 'can't prove a negative' thing, where they said you can prove a negative since in every negative statement there is a positive, and vice versa...or something like that. I straining to think of where I saw that but I can't.