This Week's Official Bigfoot Thread

[RonJ]

BigBill, I was kind of joshing about the Wendigo. It's been 45 or so years since I read the story. IIRC it sounded, according to Indian legend, like an extremely high wind, howling through the tree tops in the deep northern woods. The story gave me genuine chills. I don't think a 45-70 would stop one!

 

[vigil617]

Maybe they is, and maybe they isn't, these Bigfoots. (Bigfeet?)

One thing's for sure: they're a lot smarter 'n us. How I know, is they don't want anything to do with our kind.

I can respect that in a creature.

 

[RonJ]

vigil617, I love your sig!

You may have a point about the bigfoots.

 

[shouldazagged]

A dog with a hairlip.

That's terrible, tacky, and devoid of redeeming social value. I like it. But then I'm terrible, tacky, etc.

I think we can safely assume that the "hunting Bigfoot"-type shows are scripted. Like 95% of "reality" television.

 

[Texas Star]

BTW, "hairlip" is really spelled as "harelip." If you think about a hare or rabbit's mouth, you'll see the allusion.

Also, this applies to "harebrained", too often spelled as "hairbrained." It refers to someone with the brains of a rabbit. Hares seem better known in Europe & the UK, and "hare" fits better than rabbit.

I'm not trying to be my usual nasty self about spelling. Many people who have never seen the terms in print really don't know the meaning.

 

[RonJ]

Actually that's not a spelling error. It's a usage error.

 

[Cooter Brown]

Exactly.
Timber cruisers, oil hunters, precious metal prospectors, US Geo Surveyors, Forestry people, etc would have stumbled on something by now.

If they bury their dead, why don't they make stone or wood tools? Or leave behind some crude shelters? Or simply occupy caves which would protect much evidence like feces, hair, and skeletons? There would have to be a breeding population, so they could not be so rare and scattered. Where are the young, stupid juveniles that wander onto roads? Where are the fossil remains?

If Bigfoot existed, the greys would have abducted and probed one by now, and they have not mentioned that to me.

Buzzkill.

Does it ever strike anyone as odd that in a lot of the places these things supposedly exist there are bear, mountain lion, and raccoon seasons and that every year people run hounds all over the place? As far as I know I've never heard of a Bigfoot being treed by a pack of bear or cat hounds.

The same for mountain lions down here. If there were really a sustaining population the bear hunters would know it. Those guys cover NC like crazy. A very good friend is a retired Forest Service biologist. There was another biologist in the southeast who spent most of his career trying to prove that mountain lions had a sustaining population in the SE Appalachians. He investigated plenty of sightings, prints, etc., but try as he might in over 20 years the guy could not find a single instance that could not be traced back to a mountain lion that had been raised in captivity and released. And he was looking for it. But he was enough of a professional not to claim it was part of a truly wild population when it wasn't.

Now the Wampus Cat is a completely different story. They're everywhere.

 

[wyccad915]

I must get into this thread. Attached is a photo I got last summer on my game camera. The picture was totally black until I used the fix button to raise the brightness almost all the way. I have seen many gillie suits, but most are 2 piece. In fact, after seeing this photo, I looked up as man suits as I could to try to find one like it. I do see what appears to be a belt on the subject, but the hair does flow all the way to the ground. No flashlight is being used or it would have shown up on the original photo. This is not something I made up for fun. If you guys/gals have any suggestions, go ahead. Not a bigfoot I'm sure, but what else. I would think the hair was brown or black since it took so much brightness to bring it up. Sorry, I don't know the time since I didn't set it. I just wanted to see the deer passing by at the creek behind the house. No, I haven't put the camera back...don't want to know anymore..haha.

I'd say ghost. On topic I would say that yes I believe in big foot. I just think the wood knocking is really intriguing. I watch finding bigfoot and I know they're kind of a joke, but having the girl Renae (the one skeptic), makes it a little better. I think with all the uninhabited forests/woods that there is bound to be something. I would definitely not like to run into one though if they do exist.

 

[BigBill]

S&w45colt/guys/gals,

I tell my good neighbor in vt everything I see, he laughs at me. I told him I seen a mountainlion he laughed at me then asked our neighbor who is farther in the forest behind him. She says that she sees them too and she is from Colorado and she knows what they look like too. When I seen the tracks in the snow following the cub I knew what it was. The next morning it was above my camp on the ridge growling at my son, when it seen me too it left never to be seen or heard again. I had my 357 mag snubbie in my pocket. You have to figure if it jumps on us the snubbie is better for a gut shot. I do avoid the places for an ambush too. Like the over hanging ledges that are above me on the edge of the access road. We can survive if we understand how it attacks and stalks.

Another time I told my neighbor I seen a Fisher. We were going down the access road and about 60 yards a head of us my son says look a kitty cat.
I said that's no kitty cat that's a Fisher. It's the fastest north American tree climbing mammal. It's as mean and nasty like a wolverene only a tad smaller. My neighbor didn't believe me but that was killing his chickens. Like I said before my camp is away from all the other houses/mainly farms. Since we have no lights the night is blacker than black. You can't see your hand in front of your face. Let's face it the animals own the night. Until now. I picked up some Russian night vision and a kids night vision too. Everyone is ranting and raving about this kids night vision toy that sees 50'. I tried it and it works better than my gen 1 Russian night vision that sees 20' if that. I really want a flir but there really expensive.

 

[BigBill]

BigBill, I was kind of joshing about the Wendigo. It's been 45 or so years since I read the story. IIRC it sounded, according to Indian legend, like an extremely high wind, howling through the tree tops in the deep northern woods. The story gave me genuine chills. I don't think a 45-70 would stop one!

I don't doubt Indian legends nor stories. With some of this ancient stuff from 5,000 years ago there finding out it's real today. We just never know. I did read something about the stick men in the woods up north too. I keep an open mind.

I did teach my kids to be aware when there in the woods to use there sight, nose and there hearing. They would smell a bear first. I told them to have the dog with them. He would let them know if something is wrong.

My training paid off when they seen a mountainlion behind a dead fall eating something while walking the dog. They backed out of there. This was at my daughter's condo. My kids told everyone there to watch there kids. No one believed them. It wasn't till the mountainlion took a stroll thru the condo parking lot in plain view at 7am. Now they believe.

I love it when I hear they killed them all so there extinct. With all the vast forests in New England how can they say they killed them all? Stupid people. Bb

 

[1morethan8]

We do have large cats in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
A cougar was shot early one morning in the Spring of 2010 on Signal Mountain near Chattanooga, TN. This was never reported.. no pictures or video was made. Only four people were their to see the dead animal before it was buried.
This isn't second-hand info. Like Elmer Keith said... Hell, I Was There!

 

[Rangerpat]

Moondawg - Did you get any nookie from that wookie?

 

[redneckemt]

Anybody read the THE LONG WALK about a WWII escape from a Siberian prison Camp? (Ed Harris and Colin Farrell were in the movie) it was a true story written by the man that lead the escape. They lost a man crossing the Himalayas trying to get away from a Yeti remember this was a true story.

As for big cats in the South. We got black panthers in Middle Tenn.

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[mjr]

Attached is a photo I got last summer on my game camera. ....I do see what appears to be a belt on the subject, but the hair does flow all the way to the ground. ....If you guys/gals have any suggestions, go ahead.

It looks a little like Lady Godiva without her horse.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121571&stc=1&d=1375114412

 

[mjr]

BTW, "hairlip" is really spelled as "harelip." If you think about a hare or rabbit's mouth, you'll see the allusion.

Also, this applies to "harebrained", too often spelled as "hairbrained." It refers to someone with the brains of a rabbit. Hares seem better known in Europe & the UK, and "hare" fits better than rabbit.

And another unknown fact is that the "hair trigger" revolvers of TV and B-movie gunfighters were actually "hare trigger" guns, the superstitious cowboys of the day often replacing the standard trigger with a rabbit's foot. It was thought to bring good luck in a shootout. Besides, it felt warm and fuzzy.

 

[BigBill]

Moondawg - Did you get any nookie from that wookie?

Plenty of liquor.

 

[BigBill]

Maybe they is, and maybe they isn't, these Bigfoots. (Bigfeet?)

One thing's for sure: they're a lot smarter 'n us. How I know, is they don't want anything to do with our kind.

I can respect that in a creature.

If there half human and half animal like there DNA says they are smarter than we are because they have both instincts.

I posted on a BF reporting sight about my cooking bacon attracts bigfoot and soon after the bfro guys are doing it. Funny?

 

[BigBill]

Here's some bigfoot info out of Russia it's a true story.

Do a search for; Zana bigfoot in russia

 

[1morethan8]

As for big cats in the South. We got black panthers in Middle Tenn.

Got one over here too(East TN)...
But, be careful what you say on this board about them...
you'll have a Yankee call you a liar too!

 

[mc5aw]

BigBill ... I used to live in suburban CT on a 1-1/2 acre plot of mostly wooded wetlands. Despite the area being densely populated, the amount of land I owned provided refuge for a large assortment of critters, predominantly deer. One night I was awakened out of a deep sleep by the most terrifying shriek I have ever heard. It came from the front yard, and was followed by something large running away through the underbrush. I was paralyzed with fear, and could not move from the bed. The piercing nature of the shriek was not human, nor any animal I could identify. I kept listening, but whatever it was disappeared into the night. The next day when I had regained my composure from the evening's fright, I did some research, and could only attribute the shriek to (possibly) a pair of deer mating, although I had never heard deer utter such a hellish noise. Soon after, I saw a show on BF where a hunter recorded the exact same shriek that I heard, claiming it to be a BF. Could what I heard have been deer, or some other critter known to man? Possibly, but I know that I haven't heard anything like it since, and hope to never hear anything like it again.

For the record, the area where I lived was roughly 10 miles from where the roving Connecticut Mountain Lion was seen in Greenwich, CT and later killed near Norwalk, CT. So there are unusual critters out in the wooded areas near civilization, where they are least expected.