Visualized: Entire BFRO Database On One Page
Here's a cool looking website that attempts put every reported Bigfoot sightings starting from 1954 to 2012 on a nice looking interactive viz. What's interesting about this page is the frequency timeline chart that lets you select a time frame and see what time of year sightings occur the most.
To make sense of all the data gathered from the BFRO's website, they had to "clean" it up a bit. According to the people who put this visual together, "The data was attempted to be scrubbed and cleaned to attain some type of normalcy, unfortunately the BFRO data submission process has no validation and fields are often used arbitrarily by submitters."
Click here to view the website.
[via ryrobes.com]
It would be interesting to see this with an overlay of mountainous regions in the US and see if it correlates.
ReplyDeleteFunny how the top left corner is like a big red foot, only three toes though.
ReplyDeleteI would like to ask something: Is there a correlation between those spots and river systems?
ReplyDeleteThe spots correlate to rivers, large bodies of water, and forested areas. This is why not many sightings in the plains states.
DeleteChuck
Are there donut shops near those spots?
ReplyDeleteThere is a definite correlation between sasquatch sightings and rain fall. John Greene found areas that received 20" of rainfall a year was a consistent factor for having a sighting.
ReplyDeleteRain, rivers and high country are all directly related. Mountains trap the clouds, they become dense and rain, rivers collect the water.
DeleteDo you think this has to do with the BF's preferred habitat -or- is it because that is not OUR preferred habitat? Do sighting occur at the beginning of their territory, or the end of ours?
David from the PAC/NW
We're on a falling trend, but since the recession started, people have been spending less time out in the boonies. I'm not saying that's everything involved, but it need to be considered.
Delete-J Anon
So sad, we're on a falling trend...
ReplyDeleteToo bad its not accurate in some areas. The BFRO gets way too much credit for being a direct representation of BF population and many folks theories spoken as if their fact on certain densities of aledged populations. Nice but incomplete.
ReplyDeleteCould you imagine how many more red dots would be on the page if all the reports the BFRO has were on this map.
ReplyDeleteCool, but not too scientific given the limitations of the database and other factors. Hard to say anything about seasonal activity of bigfoot too, as the high amount of reported encounters shown in summer and fall probably corresponds to the high amount of people in wilderness areas during those periods more than it does to bigfoot being out and about.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone come a cross skeletal remains of one?
ReplyDeleteYes. Numerous. Even in Indian burial mounds. Listed as giant races or tribes of peoples. Can't be touched, Indian tradition.
DeleteNo, never. Everyone once in a while someone will claim to find "bones of a giant" but it's always proven to be a hoax.
DeleteMy big bone is no hoax, though my wife can't believe it sometimes.
DeleteWhat's interesting is that there are no large animals with a nationwide range, from the Northwest to Southeast and everywhere in between. Interesting that there are bigfoot reports from every single state, yet the creature has yet to be discovered.
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