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Bigfoot

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Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 14:44

Anyone believe in this?

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ginasevern · 19/08/2025 18:36

ThePinkPoster · 19/08/2025 18:10

Didn't you investigate the hole the little man disappeared into? Try to go back and find him again? Tell anyone? Get a camera and try to hide and get some pictures of him coming out? Try to get footprints?

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Yes, we did go and investigate the hole after a short while. We walked around the tree and looked up into the branches etc but there was nothing there. I don't think we looked for footprints but it was the middle of a field during a hot summer so I doubt there were any. This was 1970 and I was 13, so I didn't own a camera. Very few children would've back then. My mother didn't own one either. Liz's Dad had one but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have let her borrow it to go on some "wild goosechase". We told a couple of other friends at school but were laughed at so we decided to never mention it again.

ohyesido · 19/08/2025 18:36

I’m sure there are particularly large apes in remote areas that could be the big guy. Yetis are out there in the Himalayas I’m sure

KvotheTheBloodless · 19/08/2025 18:37

I definitely believe in the Bigfoot 200, and would like to run it one day Grin

SmugglersHaunt · 19/08/2025 19:16

If you’re talking about the bloke I went home with once that lived in Vauxhall, believe me it’s real.

Squirrelsnut · 19/08/2025 19:19

ginasevern · 19/08/2025 18:24

How interesting. Has she ever described what she saw?

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A spiky humanoid creature, she likened it to a stereotypical Jack Frost figure.

Elsvieta · 19/08/2025 22:54

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 17:31

There’s quite a few people on you tube and some of the ‘evidence’ is merely made by a bear or deer.

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I remember this - it was a TV doc, channel 4 I think. Some fur was found on a fence or tree and sent to Oxford Uni for DNA analysis. They found it was something related to an ancestor of modern polar bears that lived thousands of years ago. So there really is a new kind of bear in the Himalayas! Obviously a bear is a very different thing to a primate - bears sometimes live in very cold places, and primates (apart from us) just don't and never have.

Elsvieta · 19/08/2025 22:55

ginasevern · 15/08/2025 17:02

My then best friend and I were walking through fields near to where we lived. We were both 13 years old. We'd just been wandering around doing nothing very much (it was summer school holidays). Suddenly we saw a little "man", about 18 inches tall sort of dressed in leaves. He looked like a small human. His skin was brown but not hairy and he was standing upright. He looked at us for a few seconds, and we of course at him. We were about 10 feet away from him, so quite near. Then he started to run towards the nearest tree that had an entrance/hollow at the bottom and he disappeared. Once we'd composed ourselves, we compared notes as to what we'd seen and we both agreed. We were both country girls, so very used to seeing all sorts of creatures. We'd never seen anything like this before, nor since.

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Did you go and look in the tree hollow?

Elsvieta · 19/08/2025 23:00

ginasevern · 15/08/2025 18:00

Yes, that's one explanation. I'm certainly not going to dismiss it. Although I must admit 1970's rural England wasn't exactly awash with exotic animals. You'd be just as likely to see one now as you would then, if you see what I mean. It really didn't look like a monkey and my friend and I have discussed this. But we are both sure it wasn't.

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I think we are less likely to see big cats in the UK now - reports have certainly tailed (sorry) off. I think the theory is that some people did release big cats after the Dangerous Wild Animals Act of 1976 which banned keeping them - hence (maybe) the "Beast of Bodmin" and so on. Reports became a lot less common in the 1990s - which is in line with the lifespan of those sorts of animals.

Elsvieta · 19/08/2025 23:10

ThePinkPoster · 19/08/2025 18:06

I remember reading a story in a magazine - I think it might have been Readers Digest. It was written in a “it happened to me” way rather than as fiction. A man said he’d gone to stay with a friend who lived in Devon or Cornwall… anyway the friend told him if he fancied getting up early he’d show him something amazing. So they duly got up early and went for a walk in a nearby wood. As they approached a stream, the friend motioned him to be quiet and they crept through the bushes til they could see the stream. They peered through the undergrowth and there sitting on a rock was a little man about 18 inches high, washing his socks.

It was presented as a real experience. It was absolute years ago but I’ve never forgotten it.

The idea of them having socks is somehow so much weirder to me than @ginasevern 's "dressed in leaves" description...

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