Anyone else believe in Bigfoot/Sasquatch?

[BigfootAficionado]

Fed up of my family teasing me as I do believe Bigfoots are real, I try to watch everything I can documentary-wise on Bigfoot, I think its very interesting. I would love to live in America so that I could go proper Bigfooting😅

Dh says its all just a money making scam, no matter how many times I try to explain about the folklore and that they have been around for generations, etc, he just laughs it off.

I follow the BFRO and Dr Jeff Meldrum on social media, there is even an Alaska Bigfoot cruise now, I would LOVE to go on that😄

Anyone else fascinated by Bigfoot??

Jane Goodall was on expedition Bigfoot, and she theorised that they might bury their dead?
I love expedition Bigfoot!

If they are more human than ape, with language, etc they may well bury their dead, have some kind of ritual, who knows. I do know that bodies in the Pacific North West do compose very fast due to the conditions there and the place is just soo massive and remote

I used to be sceptical believing it was a person in a suit tricking everyone, but after reading accounts from people who have seen them I do believe there is a species undiscovered that fits the description. They may live under ground, they may have an odd food source and leave no trail (think of the dinosaurs who ate trees), they may be a dying breed and live alone therefore becoming extinct, there are so many possibilities we can’t say yes or no for sure. In a big dense forest in America anything is possible. I’d love to know they exist in my lifetime and find out more about them, as they’re considered so human like I’d even say they could be surviving cavemen/Neanderthal/unknown humans we still haven’t discovered. If anyone has ever read up on the dyatlov pass incident, there was a note left behind from one of the campers who said ‘snowmen are real’ there is a also a photo of what looks like Bigfoot on his camera so it does make you stop and wonder. Unexplained deaths and missing people could be at the hands of Bigfoot hence why not many viewings reported.

The native Americans have known about them for centuries and are a part of their culture. I always try to explain this to DH who thinks they are a new phenomenen to make money🙄

Yes, I have read about the Dyatlov Pass incident, its really strange what happened to them

At least due to the modern world I can do virtual bigfooting, inspecting satellite images of the Pacific North West, looking for anything unusual, though there are so many trees! 😂

I have to admit the people who claim to have seen them tell some compelling stories. That and the fact that the land can be so isolated and unexplored, I think from the UK we might struggle to comprehend that, makes me think there is a sliver of a possibility.

BMW6 · Yesterday 11:46
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No, with modern technology they would have been discovered by now”

Only if it were being used in the right places.

I can recall flying over both Russia and Australia, falling asleep for hours and waking up to still be flying over Russia or Australia. They’re vast, throw in US/Canada etc. wilderness and it would be like searching for the proverbial needle.

I have seen one- I didn't believe it before but know it's true now.

How rare is it to see a mountain lion in the US ? I would say pretty rare.

So if you believe the thing is actually trying to avoid us, has some intelligence in being able to do that AND lives in a forest where it is hard to track/see then you can kind of see how it might be very elusive.

There are some big forests in the US.

The Humnbolt Toiyabe forest is about 6 million acres according to wikipedia.

That is equivalent to a square of about 100x100 miles in area. That is a lot of forest for BigFoot to hide in, even if it was huge.

Oooh can you share your story Lulu?

I'm not a woo person, but I have seen a big cat with me very own eyes.

It was what it was, it was a black, panther sized cat, in Oxfordshire.

I was on a train that was slowing down through woodlands, and there was a 'large cat' strolling along. I'm not prone to hallucinations, and I know a giant cat when I see one.

I'd love to hear big cat stories

I don't want to hijack OP thread though, shall we have another?

OP thanks for flagging up the Amazon show, was about to get of Prime but will watch that first.

Outside of Durham towards Trimdon with my elderly mam in car. She asked me to stop to get something out of her handbag (she had poor eyesight). Pulled over into track at side of road. As we sat for a while, while she fiddled on, I looked at the fields next to us and there was a huge black cat sauntering across the field. I have cats- it was not a domestic cat. I was just astonished. I couldn't speak I was so astonished. It was bigger than a labrador and was sauntering in that powerful way that a big cat does. It had a really strong, squarish forehead and solid face and jaw, hefty, prominent nose and small ears for the size of its head. It was lithe but really powerful. Its tail was long and curved at the end and it kept it low, not horizontal or raised like a dog. It was sauntering but in a prowly way and its jaw was semi-open. It looked like it was headed towards a copse of trees in the next field. The car window was actually open a bit and I heard something - two people and a dog who were climbing a stile at the top of the field. The cat took a huge, long, leap, cleared the fence and ran into the copse of trees.
I grabbed my mam's arm - still just astonished and managed to say 'Did you see that?' She was still fannying on in her handbag and had seen nothing but even if she had been looking her eyesight was awful. It was on my side of the car and I'd say 40 metres from us.

I have told the story before on a couple of sites and other people have posted to say they or their parents have seem something very similar in the same area and that it has been known locally for years. I don't live in Durham so it was news to me.

Thanks Lulu, what a sighting! Especially when other people have seen similar!

Yes, my black cat sighting was in a dense wooded area, in an isolated part of England.

I was walking with a friend, we got a little lost after walking for a couple of hours and it was raining heavily. I felt uneasy for most of the walk, as was my dog - like we were being watched. My friend said ''Oh look, we are not alone there's a big black dog!'' I looked over and it was as PP poster had described.
It was definitely a cat and it was bigger than a lab- quite frightening.

I didn't say the word 'CAT' out loud as to frighten my friend but we both sped on as fast as we could!

I still can't quite believe we have these creatures in the UK. I don't tell people because it sounds ridiculous, like telling someone you've seen an alien.

I know Bigfoot is real. I’ve met one.

About 25 years ago I worked a summer in a the US. I got job in an iffy bar in Oregon. Middle of nowhere. In the day hardly anyone came in. I was almost always on my own.

One afternoon a ten foot hairy apeman came in. I was so scared.

It looked at me and pointed at the beer tap and made a drinking gesture. I didn’t know what to do but thought I’d better pour a beer. It pulled out a massive wad of old notes and chucked them on the bar. I saw some $100 notes so I thought I’d take a couple - free money.

It sat and drank. I was frozen to the spot but I managed to blurt out, “I’ve never seen a Bigfoot in here before.” It said, “With those prices, I’m not surprised”.

No, there is no such thing as Bigfoot. Or the Abominable Snowman.

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Me too- most people I know have never heard me talk about it. DH, PIL and a couple of friends know. I feel when I say it people think it must be made up or that I saw someone's pet cat but it was absolutely not those things. It was the most astonishing sight. I was sitting in the car so not terrified but definitely shaken by it - and felt somehow privileged to have seen it. I, also, didn't want to publicise it and have idiots with shotguns or rifles out looking for it. It clearly wasn't interested in humans or the dog.

I love cryptozoology. I’m fairly sceptical but OP have you heard of the orang pendek in Indonesia? Like Bigfoot but smaller than an average human instead of bigger. There are a lot of very convincing accounts and quite serious academic reports about it - really interesting. I love a good lake monster too - there are so many of them around the world and often weirdly similar descriptions, even going back to before they could be compared.

There are a lot of bonkers conspiracy theorists and nonsense “evidence” in this whole area (unsurprisingly) but I still love to read about it all.

I don't think you can talk about stuff like this in those terms.

It's not a matter of whether it exists or not, which is simplistic. It's a matter of the probability that it exists.

I think the probability it exists is most likely less than 10% and maybe even less than 1%, but I wouldn't offer someone 1000-1 on it.

The chance to me that there is something out there is pretty low but finite IMO.

As for big cats in the UK, I think the probability is much higher, maybe 25% chance. There was a story that the big cats in the UK are the result of a law that was introduced some time back. When the law was introduced a lot of owners of these animals allegedly released them because they were no longer allowed to keep them. However I think since that law was passed, there has been a lot of time (much longer than the lifespan of a big cat), so if that was to be the source of them then breeding pairs would have had to have been established in the wild. Which seems less likely to me.

Currently watching A Flash of Beauty, interesting how the indigenous Americans have had this belief in them for hundreds of years. I also was u der the belief that the well known sighting film from the 60s had been debunked as a fake but the people on this show who seem very scientific are adamant it’s real. Not a man in a gorilla costume.

No, the Patty film has not been debunked. In fact its a female as it has hairy boobs 😂and at that time there was not the special effects, etc that we have now to fake something like that, it was 1967 it is so tall, they would have had to find a massive man to "play" the role, and also you can see the muscles rippling that would not be obvious in a suit, most experts cannot explain that film

interesting how the indigenous Americans have had this belief in them for hundreds of years.

In this country we believed in witches for hundreds of years.

Belief and folklore isn't evidence.

I have started a big cat sighting thread, to stop traffic through here, if anyone wants to add anything.

I understand that. The coelacanth is the best example of a creature that wasn’t known to have lived on until one was caught. But then it does live very deep in the oceans.

Think of “there is no Bigfoot” as being “given all the available facts and likelihoods it is so unlikely that Bigfoot exists that we can safely discount it. But we’ll all be thrilled if one turns up.”

Big cats in the UK is a different matter. That’s just well known animals living outside their usual habitat (though even then it’s probably a myth, given the facts).