A Humorous Look at the Current Bigfoot Community
Lately, the people making the rounds in the Bigfoot community are the eccentric characters with their fantastic stories. Some of these people have nothing to do with Bigfoot research, but they certainly grab our attention.
Sharon Day has an article titled, "Bigfoot Community: You Can't Make This Sh*t Up!" where she talks about the colorful characters hitting the blogosphere like, Tom Biscardi, Rick Dyer, Jim LeBus, and Justin Smeja.
There are a lot of characters in the growing Bigfoot industry. Remember the old days when you could name the big guys and count them on one hand? You know, Peter Byrne (charming chap with a UK dialect and Khaki clothing) John Green (a gentle-spirited Canadian), Grover Krantz (the intellectual professor)?
The closest even-keeled characters we have today are folks like Jeff Meldrum, Cliff Barackman, and Mike Rugg.
Today, the industry is different. Sort of like an inbred family--you don't know what you're gonna get.
Why? Social Media? Television? Radio? Newspapers? Magazines? It seems that BF is not just for Jack Link ads and Steve Austin to wrestle nowadays. He is the most sought after commodity for everything from gun-wielding conservative rednecks to survivalist outcasts, from publicity seekers to money-grubbing circus ringmasters. You want to know some of the cast of colorful characters?
Read the article at autumnforestghosthunter.blogspot.com
Aw shucks. Thanks, Shawn. I am inspired by the merriment on your blog and since BF is my other favorite subject, I could not resist.
ReplyDeleteLebus looks like the real deal..Bigfoot will be rolling on the ground in hysterics when he sees this idiot
ReplyDeleteI want this guy on my WROL retreat for a security team.
ReplyDeleteThe WWE ain't got nuthin on the BF community. You need to start your own show. Monday night GRAW
ReplyDeleteI am a little disdained that I wasn't mentioned in this article. My degree and theories are well-regarded throughout the legitimate scientific community, why not here?
ReplyDeleteDo I need to gain 80 lbs, grow a mullet and weild a crossbow for you people to take notice?
Here's an exceptof my unimpeachable work. The complete theory has been published as "The Bigfoot/Chinese railworker connection."
Gigantism is a serious problem in the East. The fact North Korea has a basketball player who is 12 feet tall supports the oversized Chinese railway worker theory. Mutated Eskimos could have crossed a land bridge and intermingled with escaped Chinese railworkers, creating a proto-Sasquatch. Eskimos are known to use bridges and Chinese railworkers are prone to escape (they did not like their jobs.) Let me clarify:
Bigfoot, more accurately known as Sasquatch, could very well be a gigantism-stricken Mongoloid who features a dense hair evolutionary adaptation.
This theory, which is well-regarded by the educated scientific community, details one of the most fascinating Sasquatch adaptations: the double layered coat which helps it survive the extremely cold conditions that prevail in its natural habitat. The top layer of its coat is made up of coarse, long hair, which keep snow and botflies off its body. On the other hand, the layer beneath - known as the qiviut (for those of unfamiliar with standard English it is pronounced KIV-EE-UTE), is made of short, dense hair, which traps the warm air and facilitates insulation. The second layer - which is believed to be the warmest of animal coats in the world, is 8-10 times warmer than that of a common cat (Felis houses.)
The Sasquatch sheds its coat in spring, revealing a glossy -- almost iridescent -- reptilian skin, which explains sightings of the Cryptid known as Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp in North Carolina.
The scaly-smooth & supple Saquatch grows a new coat just in time for the winter season to set in.
This theory is as close to fact as theories get.
If you would like me to educate you any further do not hesitate to ask. Bigfoot research has a steep learning curve so I do not judge your posts harshly. Instead of mocking the uniformed I prefer to educate them, which makes the World a better place.
@the naturalist - LOL
ReplyDeleteThe Naturalist- I don't know enough baout the whole eskimo thing or whatever to know if that sounds intelligent or not. And I accepted the whole fur thing, but the scale theory? That is one of the weirdest things I have ever heard. There are so many sasquatch sightings, in all seasons, none of which involve scales. There are like, two reports of the lizard man, made by overweight guys with mullets and crossbows. And you sound almost as egotistical as some of the other bigfoot "researchers." And world does not need to be capitalized.
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ReplyDeleteThe fur thing is interesting. The way a horse's winter coat works is that the changes in daylight triggers the growth, and the new hairs are long and coarse. Every hair is attached to a muscle. Grease, oils, and dirt will start to build up in the now thicker coat, and this will provide insulation later on. However, the most effective way for a horse to stay warm is when the muscles cause the hairs to raise, thus trapping a layer of heat close to the body. Maybe it is similar for squatches?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Michaela - my theories are interesting.
ReplyDeleteBut I disagree her on this: World should be capitalized, specifically when it appears at the beginning of a sentence, or after a colon if it begins an independent clause (otherwise known as a complete sentence.)
No need for thanks, I enjoy informing people on all subjects, including English.
I have it on credible authority that the creature known as Bigfoot, is, in fact, Avian. Hear me out.The Emperor Bigfoot is perhaps best known (theoretically) for the sequence of journeys adults make each year in order to mate and to feed their offspring. The only Bigfoot species that breeds during the Northern winter, it treks 500–1200 km through the forest to breeding colonies which may include thousands of individuals. The female lays a single egg, which is incubated by the male while the female returns to the woods to feed; parents subsequently take turns foraging in the woods and caring for their chick in the colony. The lifespan is typically 120 years in the wild, although observations suggest that some individuals may live to 150 years of age. Its diet consists primarily of fish, but can also include crustaceans, such as freshwater lobsters(shrimp), and cephalopods, such as oysters. In hunting, the species can remain submerged in a lake up to 18 minutes, diving to a depth of 53 m. It has several adaptations to facilitate this, including an unusually structured hemoglobin to allow it to function at low oxygen levels, solid bones to reduce barotrauma, and the ability to reduce its metabolism and shut down non-essential organ functions.As the species has no fixed nest sites that individuals can use to locate their own partner or chick, the Emperor Bigfoot must rely on vocal calls alone for identification. It uses a complex set of calls that are critical to individual recognition between parents, offspring, and mates, displaying the widest variation in individual calls of all Bigfoots. Vocalizing Emperor Bigfoots use two frequency bands simultaneously. Chicks use a frequency-modulated whistle to beg for food and to contact parents. The species has adapted in several ways to counteract heat loss. Feathers provide 80–90% of its insulation, and it has a layer of sub-dermal fat which may be up to 3 cm (1.2 in) thick before breeding. This resultant blubber layer impedes the mobility of the Emperor on land compared to its less well fat-insulated cousin, the Magellanic Bigfoot.The Emperor Bigfoot is listed as a species of "least concern" by the IUCN.
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ReplyDeleteAlong with nine other species of Bigfoot, it is currently under consideration for inclusion under the US Endangered Species Act. The primary reasons for this are declining food availability due to the effects of campers and fisherman and industrial fisheries on the lobster and fish populations. Other reasons for their potential placement on this list include disease, habitat destruction, and disturbance at breeding colonies by humans. Of particular concern is the impact of tourism. One study has shown Emperor Bigfoot chicks in a créche to become more apprehensive following helicopter approach to 1,000 m (3,281 ft).The most prominent feature of the Bigfoot is its short tusks. These are elongated canines, which are present in both sexes and can reach a length of 6" and weigh up to 10 lb. Tusks are slightly longer and thicker among males, who use them for fighting, dominance and display; the strongest males with the largest tusks typically dominate social groups. Tusks are also used to form and maintain holes in the forest floor and aid the bigfoot in climbing out of water onto the beach. It was previously assumed that tusks were used to dig out prey from the lake bed, but analyses of abrasion patterns on the tusks indicate that they are dragged through the sediment while the upper edge of the snout is used for smelling lobster scat.Many species of Bigfoots are sexually dimorphic, though the differences between males and females vary from species to species. In some species, males have a longer, more protruding neck than their female counterparts, while in others the claws are longer on the females. In most species, the male tends to be larger than the female. Some believe that females grow quicker, while the males grows slower but larger. The male also has a plastron that is curved inwards to aid reproduction. The easiest way to determine the sex of a Bigfoot is to look at it's plastron.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap you guys absolutely are hilarious. @Naturalist North Koreas basketball player you refer to is only 7ft8
ReplyDeleteGood Post Autumforest.
ReplyDeleteI always appreciate your insight.
As I mentioned on your blog,Jim LeBus is kind of growing on me.I can see his potential.
Desperate attention whores. Bigfoot is only the means to that end.
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