Bigfoot,sasquatch, swamp ape, dog men, et al..anyone seen one?

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Been a bit since the topic has come up. Charles Askins was once hired to track one...Jimmy Stewart smuggled yeti hand bones out of Nepal... Teddy Roosevelt related a scary tale about one... I owned a .416 Rigby rifle for a while in hopes of seeing (and shooting) one.

So who has seen something in the woods or knows someone who has?

I am still getting over the flu, so indulge me if you will. Several times in the past 12 years the topic has come up here, and a surprising number of stories, such as that related to Col. Askins come up.
 
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Nice timing. Just this last week, I discussed this with two professional scientists. One has an interest in cryptozoology. One is a mammologist; the other a herpetologist.

Both are impressed by some of the evidence, especially the few confirmed tracks that show not only whorls and ridges, almost impossible to fake, but correct use of musculature in the steps taken on certain terrain, like using the right pressure and shaping of the tracks according to the way an animal that size would walk. These better tracks are shaped as they would be for an animal like that: they do not mimic large human footprints. They are clearly a different species.

Both men have open minds about the issue, and I think the preponderance of the overall evidence does suggest a likelihood that the animal exists. Those tracks and the many credible witness sightings impress me.

I do not much respect the Animal Planet Bigfoot search show. Lets' not go there...That channel also seemingly faked a report about a particularly large white shark off of Cape Town that wasn't behaving as I felt a shark would. I asked an acquaintance who lives in Cape Town if they'd had this monster in the news there, as was alleged. He said it was a fake, although they had just had a valid white shark attack in nearby False Bay.

I'd very much like to see Bigfoot confirmed and identified for what it is, if real.
 
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Several years ago, when I was still living in the redwood area of Northern California, I was contacted by some cryptozoologists (i.e. Bigfoot hunters) who were looking for a packer to pack them and their gear into some remote area outside of Orleans, California, where the infamous 1967 film of Bigfoot allegedly took place.

While it was only a couple of hours from my place, and while I'm not opposed to using my pack string to pack someone else into the back country, there was just something about the whole thing that sounded more than "a bubble off plumb," so I turned them down.

Another packer took the job and at first they wanted to blindfold him while going into the area. He explained that he couldn't ride a horse and lead a pack string while blindfolded, so they gave him a bye on that one.

However, after he packed them and their gear in and out, they stiffed him on his payment....paid him with a rubber check.

Oh...by the way, they never spotted Bigfoot the whole time they were there.:eek:

Well...sorry I digressed...but to answer the OP's question, I lived in so-called "Bigfoot Country" for 30 years, spent a heckuva lot of time in the back country and in designated wilderness areas with the pack string and never spotted Bigfoot.

Of course, if you've ever been into that country, there are miles and miles and miles of thick, thick timber. You can top out on a ridge and look out over the timber country and never see the end. Yep, it's that thick. So, it's not beyond comprehension that something could be in that timber and never be seen.

I've heard the weird noises and the "tree banging" late at night and early in the morning when I've known for a fact that I was the only one camped in that area for miles around. Never thought too much about it.

So, while I admit I've never seen Bigfoot, I'm not going to say emphatically that I don't believe they exist. I've just never come across one.:)
 
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Mule Packer said:
...but to answer the OP's question, I lived in so-called "Bigfoot Country" for 30 years, spent a heckuva lot of time in the back country and in designated wilderness areas with the pack ästring and never spotted Bigfoot.

Of course, if you've ever been into that country, there are miles and miles and miles of thick, thick timber. You can top out on a ridge and look out over the timber country and never see the end. Yep, it's that thick.

So, while I admit I've never seen Bigfoot, I'm not going to say emphatically that I don't believe they exist. I've just never come across one.:)
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Same here, except without the horses and in Northwestern Oregon, another Sasquatch hotspot. After 30 years of hunting, camping and backpacking the northwoods, more often than not solo, I've felt spooky many times, but never seen or heard anything I couldn't explain. I would like to believe in Sasquatch, I've read all the literature, I just think it would be really cool, but just plain old probability tells me that we'd have a live one, a dead one, or at least clear, in-focus pictures or video of one by now, given the masses of "recreationists" descending upon the outdoors these days, everyone with a cellphone that takes much better video than Patterson's 8mm camera back in 1967.
Still, the scientific evidence is impressive. Everybody interested should read the late Grover Krantz' classic "Big Footprints" and Jeff Meldrum's "Sasquatch: Legend meets Science". And then try not to drop that .44 Magnum as you crawl out of your tent at two in the morning on a moonless night deep in the woods to take a dump.....
 
Loch Raven is one of the reservoirs that serves the city of Baltimore. It's located north of the city, and the road around and through it is beautiful and very scenic.

When I was a little boy, in the 1950s, we would take drives through Loch Raven, usually on Sundays, and my dad would point to the woods around us and explain that there were many mysterious creatures there, among them the Wolferduffer, Snalleygaster, Mugwump, and Elderdritchen. When my brothers and I would ask what these creatures looked like, my Dad would explain that he didn't know, but they were surely out there...

And then there's the Abbagoochie... :) Home Page
 
I've seen bears and wild hogs while out hunting in Florida, an Armadillo while out hiking in Colorado, a Three Toed Sloth and an Ant Eater while out hiking on the island of Panama but nope, no bigfoot or other such creatures.
 
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Dang, since you said in the woods I guess that disqualifies the ones roaming around Wally World. Can't imagine the ones in the woods being worse. Larry
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That was my Mother-In-Law, sorry she shocked you, we try to keep her caged up.
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GatorFarmer said:
So who has seen something in the woods or knows someone who has?
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I am gonna' go out on a limb & make a prediction!

Now that they have gone & made MJ legal in Co., Wa., Ak, & who-knows what other woodsie type places, it just stands to reason some of 'em redneck good-ol'-boys will now have an enhanced 'vision' ability.

Now, my prediction: "Sightings gotta' be go-en' up!"
 
Bigfoot TV Shows

I've long-since stopped watching the bigfoot TV shows as I already know the ending: nothing definitive was found. I would think that definitive proof of their existence would be big news.

I also wonder why these alleged creatures inhabit the same wilderness areas frequently by hunters, yet, no one has ever shot one and called the authorities.

Assuming bigfoot existed, it would be in the hominid family and hominids are also meat-eaters. Yet, no one has ever found a bigfoot kill of wild game or domestic animals. Also, no hunter or hiker has ever been found torn to shreds and whose wounds don't match the armament of existing creatures.
 
federali said:
I've long-since stopped watching the bigfoot TV shows as I already know the ending: nothing definitive was found. I would think that definitive proof of their existence would be big news.

I also wonder why these alleged creatures inhabit the same wilderness areas frequently by hunters, yet, no one has ever shot one and called the authorities.

Assuming bigfoot existed, it would be in the hominid family and hominids are also meat-eaters. Yet, no one has ever found a bigfoot kill of wild game or domestic animals. Also, no hunter or hiker has ever been found torn to shreds and whose wounds don't match the armament of existing creatures.
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Just proves how smart Bigfoot really is...


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