Do you believe in Bigfoot ?

ShyMets

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

Except they died about about 300,00 years ago and were in Asia

The greatest trick gigantopithecus every pulled was convincing the world that they'd died out

Capt'n Midnight

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

Except they died about about 300,00 years ago and were in Asia

Living fossils have been found before. And Asia has a long history of primates of all sizes.

But it's not like North America is covered in primates so you're going to have to explain where bigfoot came from. Aliens ?

NIMAN

No.

Mimon

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Living fossils have been found before. And Asia has a long history of primates of all sizes.

But it's not like North America is covered in primates so you're going to have to explain where bigfoot came from. Aliens ?

Humans crossed from Asia to North America so that's not an issue. The bigger issue I would have is lack of any fossil record or a body turning up.

Very unlikely they exist but maybe they bury their dead and live in areas so remote that that people have never excavated there.

riffmongous

ShyMets wrote: »

The greatest trick gigantopithecus every pulled was convincing the world that they'd died out

Only 4 mandibles ever found.. very limited historical record

The Inbetween is mine

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Living fossils have been found before. And Asia has a long history of primates of all sizes.

But it's not like North America is covered in primates so you're going to have to explain where bigfoot came from. Aliens ?

fallacious argument I'm afraid

everlast75

Sasquatch is often confused with Bigfoot....

and yeti never complains

EmmetSpiceland

everlast75 wrote: »

Sasquatch is often confused with Bigfoot....

and yeti never complains

That was abominable.

Your Face

mondeo

They keep the Bigfoot thing alive for tourism, same as the lake monster in Scotland... We know they don't exist and no evidence has ever shown there is anything like that out there. Has anyone ever heard of the Dublin mountain Monster ? He lives up near the Hell fire club, a tall white human shaped creature with big hairy arms yellow pointed teeth ? Now Tweet that a few hundred times and some idiot will go up there with their night vision camera and go look for it. The first shadow they see or strange noise will be their evidence of the Dublin mountain Monster!

mondeo

mondeo wrote: »

They keep the Bigfoot thing alive for tourism, same as the lake monster in Scotland... We know they don't exist and no evidence has ever shown there is anything like that out there. Has anyone ever heard of the Dublin mountain Monster ? He lives up near the Hell fire club, a tall white human shaped creature with big hairy arms yellow pointed teeth ? Now Tweet that a few hundred times and some idiot will go up there with their night vision camera and go look for it. The first shadow they see or strange noise will be their evidence of the Dublin mountain Monster!

Don't be ridiculous. What you are describing, however, is probably blurry sightings of the green toothed Hellfire monster.

Capt'n Midnight

Mimon wrote: »

Humans crossed from Asia to North America so that's not an issue.

It's a major issue. Humans are very omnivorous so could live off shellfish.

It's difficult to imagine a forest dweller doing the same.

breezy1985

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

I was sceptical too but I’d suggest Have a look at one of the videos analysing it online

The animal shows muscular movement etc in its legs, back, arms that is impossible to fake.

Also, Hollywood costume designers still cannot make a suit anything like as realistic and certainly couldn’t in the 60s when it was filmed.

That footage is way too grainy to make out details like muscle movement

Mimon

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

It's a major issue. Humans are very omnivorous so could live off shellfish.

It's difficult to imagine a forest dweller doing the same.

Maybe they only live in forests now as they want to stay away from humans. If they live in northerly forests they are probably omnivorous also.

My theory is that it comes from a folk memory from the Native Americans that came from some of the megafauna that was around 11 thousand years ago. Maybe short faced bear or giant sloth.

Beechwoodspark

breezy1985 wrote: »

That footage is way too grainy to make out details like muscle movement

I would suggest looking at the “MK Davis” videos analysing it on YouTube. Lots of detail in that particular footage.

The Inbetween is mine

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

I would suggest looking at the “MK Davis” videos analysing it on YouTube. Lots of detail in that particular footage.

Yuu mean the 5 second grainy clip of the lad in the monkey suit carrying a towel

Quantum Baloney

I was much more into that cacti goblin thing that people claimed would show up in different locations with a little jan sports bag (jk). Gnomes, or shrub people have a more solid basis of evidence than abominable snowmen or yetis, then again, I have my suspicions about the more orthodox products of western civilisation's monstrous compendium too, like dinosaurs or early humanoids. So much of what we take for granted is bogus, people will look back on us and the quaint ideas we had surrounding human evolution, microbiology, and the material nature of the universe in the same way we can't quite fathom the beliefs of literal creationists.

Beechwoodspark

The “North American wood ape conservancy” podcasts are v interesting.

The Inbetween is mine

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

The “North American wood ape conservancy” podcasts are v interesting.

As in there's not a single native species of ape in North America....must be riveting

Beechwoodspark

I don’t know what it is...

But there’s too many sightings for it just to be nothing.

The Inbetween is mine

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

I don’t know what it is...

But there’s too many sightings for it just to be nothing.

Alcohol & drug induced visions, mental instability, attention seekers, profiteers....take your pick

Adyx

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Yes. Lots of times.

Often seen in a family unit - male female and young.

Thinkerthunker has such a clip -

https://youtu.be/vEyQlTc-Rro

Just as an aside, the amount of time and effort that ppl would have to put in to fake stuff like this, you’d wonder why ? It hardly gets any attention from “serious media” so why bother faking

Have you seen America? I'd be shocked if people weren't faking stuff, not because it would imply bigfoot was real, but because that's exactly the kind of thing people do.

ZX7R

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Saw a documentary on discovery a while back on Bigfoot.
Why has a dead big foot never been found they asked a bigfoot expert.
Because they shape shift into a dead rabbit he said.
That was enough for me.
Waffleology

The best reply to the question I heard to why remains where never found was from a sheriff who was a none believer, when asked his reply was, if I wanted to hide a dead body I'd bury it in them there forest better chance of finding a lost winning lottery ticket than a blood hound finding a body there.

banie01

I know a lad who's a size 22 and is as hairy as a yak if that counts?

whisky_galore

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

As in there's not a single native species of ape in North America....must be riveting

There was a sh1t ton of them around Washington DC not long ago.

Capt'n Midnight

banie01 wrote: »

I know a lad who's a size 22 and is as hairy as a yak if that counts?

Huge Yakman ?

The Inbetween is mine

whisky_galore wrote: »

There was a sh1t ton of them around Washington DC not long ago.

I'll give you that one