Bigfoot

[Mudder]

I'm new here on this forum, and haven't seen any "hairy biped" threads so far. I have no idea how to start this thread so I think I'll just throw out some links first...


Frequently Asked Questions:
Frequently Asked Questions

Website:
Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization

Forums:
BFRO - hosted by excoboard.com
The Bigfoot Forums


Personally, I've had three episodes (in woodlands of Iowa) that can't lead me to believe that my experiences were anything that a human or a four-legged animal could do.

What do you all think? Has anybody had any odd experiences in the woods or near woods that would lead you to think that it was maybe one of these creatures? Some of us are skeptics, some of us don't know, and some of us believe that it is possible. I'm in between "don't know" and "believer." Please no jokes, thanks

P.S. Happy Fourth Of July, everyone!

 

[Grandpa]

No personal experience here but I certainly won't laugh at those that have had them. I find it hard to believe that with heat seaking technology or infrared tech that someone hasn't found one if they exist but I also know some of these wilderness' are mighty huge with large tracts of land that are seldom visited.
That leaves me in the "undecided" category rather than skeptic.

 

[Mudder]

No personal experience here but I certainly won't laugh at those that have had them. I find it hard to believe that with heat seaking technology or infrared tech that someone hasn't found one if they exist but I also know some of these wilderness' are mighty huge with large tracts of land that are seldom visited.
That leaves me in the "undecided" category rather than skeptic.

Read all those Frequently Asked Questions links, and your questions should be answered

Specifically this one: Where Is The Physical Evidence?
http://bfro.net/gdb/show_FAQ.asp?id=407

But there's more info in everything that I posted above. Interesting stuff. I don't mean to get all serious here, as I'm not a total 100% believer either -- Just thought I'd bring it up

Edit #1: Oh, and game cams and electronics and guns and etcetera with not catching the animal on cam or whatnot... There's a reason for all that too if you read deep enough. Makes you think twice. I've read all of it, and I've had 3 or 4 encounters (maybe). Experience what I have or what thousands of people have said (for no money, by the way), and read all that stuff, then come out saying, "Nope, I don't believe in it." -- It's impossible to say no to all that if you're a witness and an internet reader. Anyways, I'll shut up

Edit #2: I'm open to everyone's opinions -- I just don't want this to be a joker's emporium to sell jokes for free.

 

[Pathfinder1]

Hi...


If it ain't there, it doesn't exist...in other words, show me one and I might believe it...!!

 

[Mudder]

Hi...


If it ain't there, it doesn't exist...in other words, show me one and I might believe it...!!

But, I believe in aliens and ufo's but have never seen either . But I've for sure had ghost experiences -- Just not sure about my bigfoot experiences.

 

[RandySki]

Even though I've never seen or experienced anything like Bigfoot I like to keep an open mind to the possibility that they do exist. If it's confirmed that they exist I just hope to never seen one while I'm camping.

 

[IndianaHiker]

Spend a good deal of time in remote locations backpacking. Never seen one or any signs of one.

 

[ponderosa]

I want to believe. I just like the idea. And really I don't think it's out of the question. In lots of places in the PNW, you can be ten feet off the trail and completely out of view of hikers walking past.

 

[Grandpa]

I have a bucket hike planned. 105 mile loop. And inside the perimeter of that 105 mile loop there are NO trails. Most of that 105 miles will see less than 10 people a year and half of those will be rangers on patrol to keep the trail open. It is a big, rugged country and heavily forested. Lewis and Clark picked the easy route through those mountains and it took them six weeks to go 100 miles, from Lolo pass, down the Lochsa to the confluence with the Selway. 500 elephants could live in that area and no one the wiser, let alone what stories we have of Sasquatch. I'm not saying a bigfoot lives in there but the possiblity is definately there.

 

[Lamebeaver]

Does bigfoot exist? I don't know, but I am extremely doubtful that one could live in a highly developed state like Iowa and escape detection.

 

[Pathfinder1]

Hi...


Maybe the wild hogs killed them off.

On the other hand, on my last trek in Nepal, some of the sherpas were talking loudly, pointing to something, and yelling "Yeti, Yeti".

When I got to where they were, I saw that they were pointing to something in the snow. It was the largest somewhat human-like fresh footprint I had ever seen. Finally we had proof. I wanted to try and preserve the footprint, but had nothing suitable available. So, I gently sliced the footpring out of the snow and carefully enclosed it in my sleeping bag.

When we got back to our base, I found that the giant footprint in the snow had melted. That was tragic, I wouldn't give up, though. I poured out the melted footprint into a glass jar, and have it to this day to display to any doubters.

 

[CozInCowtown]

We have allready delt with that critter, ppine has him stuffed and hanging on his wall.
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[Hikenhunter]

Never saw one or even evidence of one. I think if they were here somebody would have actually taken a picture of it by now.

 

[hikeorbike]

It's possible that new, strange and unusual creatures exist that might resemble something of a Bigfoot nature, but if we're talking an upright ape/gorilla/man/Chewbacca hybrid, no I don't think that exists.

 

[Judy Ann]

Nope, I haven't seen one and don't plan to sneak up on one either. It's a good thing they are shy and like to avoid us.

Iowa? Maybe they are the corn field artists? Sorry, but it is hard to be serious about Bigfoot. I have enough to think about hiking alone in bear country and watching out for snakes and trying not to get hurt. Containing real fears is sufficient without worrying about angels and demons or freaky people.

 

[Theosus]

It's funny... People will say "I won't believe in Bigfoot unless you show me proof", whereas the same otherwise logical people will say "(insert religion here) is the only way. You have to prove me wrong, otherwise I have to be right".

I think there are (physical) things out there that we may not have discovered, as well as things out there that we may assume are gone, and are not. Remember the coelacanth?

 

[Grandpa]

In 1964, an old Ponca gentleman (84 years old) told me his grandfather, as a small boy, was part of the band that killed the last pazzu tonka (big nose) in the Niobrara river bottoms in Nebraska. That could have been in the early 1800's, which defies all known scientific studies of the mastadon in North America. Was the old man telling a story? Or are we so vain to think we have all the answers?

Science finds a fossilized bone fragment and builds a theory around that finding, and as more fragments are found, the theory enlarges and since the newest fossil they have found dates way back, that becomes the latest parameter that species lived.

I'm still not saying mastadons ran around N. America until the 1800's nor am I saying Sasquatches still wander around the world, but I will say we still have a lot to learn about this planet.

 

[dinosaur]

Does bigfoot exist? I don't know, but I am extremely doubtful that one could live in a highly developed state like Iowa and escape detection.

You may be right but Iowa's not that highly developed. I've been there on numerous occasions and have seen some creatures that, had they not been wearing clothes, could easily have passed for bigfoot.

 

[Judy Ann]

Maybe Sasquatch is a descendant of the Giants? Who knows? There is too much yet to learn about our little world to deny much.

 

[Mudder]

I guess a lot of you haven't been in Iowa much. It's not just corn fields. There's many vast and wide and dense woods that follow the rivers. Google Earth it sometime.